Hello and welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition's Ask a Nutritionist podcast brought to you by

nutritional weight and wellness. My name is Leah Kleinshrode and I'm a registered and licensed

dietitian. This podcast strives to help people

around the world make the connection between what they eat and how they feel. I want to thank you

all so much for your support and listenership over the years. And if you're enjoying this show,

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others find these important real food messages. So on today's show, I will be answering a few

related questions that we received from one of our Dishing Up Nutrition listeners.

And this listener asked, is it possible to become less sensitive to certain foods as one's gut becomes healthier?

And then related, they also ask, is it okay to continue taking glutamine and bifido for extended periods of time?

So a couple really great questions.

The short answers are yes and yes. And there's a healthy dose of nuance, of course, to go along with this. So let me do a little bit of digging

into the background with both of these questions. We'll flush them out a little bit more.

First, I want to state something that might seem obvious, but I just

want to make sure that I'm being clear. The question here is asking about food sensitivities. We're

not talking about true food allergies here. So food allergies are a very specific type of immune

response that produce IgE antibodies.

And these reactions, they're immediate.

They can be pretty dramatic.

And sometimes they can be life-threatening.

So think about like anaphylactic peanut reactions or tree nut reactions or allergies.

That's not what we're talking about here.

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